Archive - Aug 27, 2008
Cubs Assign Six Prospects to Arizona Fall League
Submitted by Arizona Phil on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 10:11am.
Tentative rosters for the 2008 Arizona Fall League (AFL) were announced yesterday (they are incomplete and also subject to change), and six of the seven Cubs prospects who will be playing for the Mesa Solar Sox this fall have been named:
Lucky Number Seven
Submitted by Rob G. on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 9:40am.
Quite a night for the Cubbies, who looked nothing like the team with the best record in baseball, other than the final result. Errors, defensive miscues, bad starting pitching, bad relief pitching and yet they overcame all that thanks to Craig Hansen's pitching and Geovany Soto's hitting. Soto had been on a steady decline since his monstrous April putting up OPS numbers of 1.048, .868, .747, .740 heading in August. But things have turned around for him and he's put up a 1.014 OPS with 20 RBI's matching his April RBI total with five games still to go this month. His seven RBI outburst yesterday tops his 6 RBI game in April versus the Brewers and is the second most RBI's for a Cubs catcher in a game trailing the likes of Barry Foote, George Mitterwald and Ed Bailey (since 1956).
If you happen to be wondering who had the most RBI's in a game for the Cubs since 1956 like I was, the answer is after the jump.
Read the rest of this entry>>>Game 133 Thread / Cubs @ Pirates (3 of 3)
Submitted by Cubnut on Wed, 08/27/2008 - 5:23am.
Game Chat | Press Pass | BR Preview
| SP | Jason Marquis | SP | *Zach Duke |
| 8-7, 4.76, 71 K, 52 BB, 134.1 IP | 4-12, 5.29, 72 K, 42 BB, 151.1 IP | ||
| LF | Alfonso Soriano | RF | *Nyjer Morgan |
| SS | Ryan Theriot | SS | Jack Wilson |
| 1B | Derrek Lee | CF | *Nate McLouth |
| 3B | Aramis Ramirez | 1B | *Adam LaRoche |
| CF | Reed Johnson | LF | *Brandon Moss |
| RF | Mark DeRosa | 2B | Freddy Sanchez |
| 2B | Ronny Cedeno | 3B | Andy LaRoche |
| C | Henry Blanco | C | Raul Chavez |
| P | *Jason Marquis | P | *Zach Duke |
The Cubs go for the sweep, and once again I am reminded that I don't know how to add Rob's broom graphic to the game results box at the top of the right-hand column. I'll make you a deal, Jason Marquis: you win the game, and I'll work on the broom.